Help!/Hi. I am new to GitHub as of June 2017.

I used to work in advertising but hated it so now I am in the middle of a computing degree with the Open University in the UK but have recently finished a small project for TNS, the network company, which was a simple database product using Java.

I have put my degree on pause and am doing the Oracle Java exams as I need to earn money at the moment (and improve the world with ODK).

I looked at many projects on GitHub that use Java and ODK attracted me because there is a chance what we do will genuinely help people in less developed countries. I like the idea that software should work on budget devices as this opens up areas that would otherwise be closed to people with few resources.

I am currently working on issue #33 on Briefcase which involves trying to consolidate file extensions and mime types across all the main projects. If you have any idea where these might be set or how any settings evolved over the years (or any other information that might help such as why Collect converts all image files to jpegs) please let me know.

If you want to contact me my email is dansteward@gmail.com or here on the forum.